Snap-hook



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GECEGE D. MosHEE, oE EiEMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

SNAP-HOOK,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,720, dated August 21,1883.

Application filed January 17, 188.2. (Model.)

To atl whom, it muy concern/.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. MosHEE, of Birmingham, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented ai certain new and useful Improvement in Snap-Hooks, of which the `following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where Figure l is e view of the back of my improved snap. Fig. 2 is a side view of saine. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section of seme on a plane denoted by line a: x. Y

My invention relates to that class of 'snep hooks known as bolt-snaps 5, and it consists in the peculiar arrangement of parts, whereby a cheap, simple, and readily-assembled snep is Y made; the body of the hook being so shaped es to form an end and aportion of zt socket longitudinally of the hook, and the bolt so shaped as to forni the remaining side and an end of e socket, in which e spring lies lengthwise of the bolt.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes a hook-body, generally formed of cestiron, with projections a a! on either side ofthe recess, which forms part of the socket for the bolt b and the inclosedY spiral spring c. The

knob b', appurtenant to the bolt, serves as e ineens for moving back the bolt,-whieh is held in :i closed position (its forward end in contact with the end of the hook) by the spring c. One end of, this spring` is seated against the' projection ld in the hook-body, and the other presses against the shoulder e lin the bolt b, theboltbeing so formed in casting (this method of making is preferred) as to complete the spring-socket between the hook-body and the bolt. The hook and bolt are mede of cest metal, the springk (of brass or steel) is placed in the socket, the bolt then placed. so as to cover it and hold it between the seats d and e in compression, and the projections a! c turned down, so as to loosely einbrace the'bolt.

I claim as my invention- In a snaphook of the bolt-snep order, the combination of the spring lying lengthwise of the bolt, the sliding bolt forming a socket or rest for one side and one end of thespring, and the snap-'body forming a socket or seat for the opposite side and-end of the spring, all 'substantially es described, and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE D. MOSHER.

- Vitnesses: Y

' D. M. BAssETT,

GEC. R. HCPPEN. 

